That’s Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and hopefully sometimes class/lab won’t go the whole time. Thursdays I don’t have the 12-3 lab, so I can eat lunch at home. And thank GOODNESS I have Fridays off to do all my studying.

Here’s my tentative workout schedule:

Monday: Rest after Symphony

Tuesday: Quick 3-4 mile run

Wednesday: Gym, the express version

Thursdays: Something active in the afternoon, walking or workout if there’s time

Friday-Sunday: Workouts as usual

I’m sure I’ll be out late and will choose sleep over workouts, but that’s my goal.

MY OTHER RECIPES

As for the blog , Monday-Wed. is going to be very hard for me to keep up with the comments . I’ll probably have to save them to answer> on Fridays, so please help me with your expertise when you can! I’ll do my best to get the posts up on time, but I may have to combine breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner if time doesn’t allow.

This is all until July 10 , so bear with me until then!

Breakfast

No workout this morning because of staying up too late. I’m hoping to fit in a walk, but who knows! I started the day with reheated whipped banana oatmeal. The verdict? About 90% as good. The flavor is 100% but the texture isn’t up to par. But when necessary, it works great!! It is nice to save the 5 minutes of cooking and 3 minutes of cleaning the pot.

The combo:

Leftover 1/3 oats/milk/banana portion

1 tbsp flax

1/4 cup-ish blueberries

1/4 a blueberry vanilla granola plank

Spoonful AB

I added a splash of hemp milk to rehydrate before lightly microwaving. One big plus in the summertime: you can eat it chilled and get the banana flavor without the heat!

This is a question for anyone who can remember…especially because Kath won’t have time! haha.
I thought I remembered Kath mentioning a while back a website that helped her stay organized…like todolist.com or something similar to that. Does anyone remember what it was or have any websites like this that they use for calendars, to do lists etc?

I think what’s going to carry you through (with flying colors!!!) is sticking to your sleep schedule! You did an awesome job with prepping for the week! What a wonderful Mom you will be, Kath! I find that when my schedule gets so intense (last sememster: Class 9-12, work 1-5, class 6-9!!! With a 35-45 minute commute to and from work), getting between 7-9 hours of sleep a night kept me healthy and happy! Luckily, that schedule was only on Mondays and Wednesdays, but regardless, as you’ve mentioned so many times before, when you get the right (and consistent!) amount of sleep, you can get up and get your day going with a positive light!

And blogging should come after you do all of the things for Y.O.U. We’ll still read and love Kerf <333 (forev.)

FROYO NOTE: Sorry about that other recipe! Here’s one I found on recipezaar that looks easy enough and the color is so beautiful!!! I wish you and Matt had an ice cream machine, though! They are so much fun and you can get SO creative with them :-\

Directions
(1) Freeze the yogurt, and the fruit, if you are starting with fresh.
(2) It is best to put the yogurt into an ice-cube tray.
(3) Puree the frozen yogurt and fruit in a food processor with the remaining ingredients, except the sugar.
(4) They should be thoroughly blended.
(5) Taste, and process in as much sugar as seems good to you.
(6) Spoon into serving dishes and return to the freezer until dessert time.
(7) If you wish to keep the yogurt in the freezer for up to a week, you may do so, in a covered container.
(8) It will need to sit out at cool room temperature for 30 minutes to an hour before serving, or it will be too hard.

I haven’t tried it yet, but hopefully it will spark some experimenting! (Of course when you have the time!!! Definitely not now though!)

Best of luck this week Kath! Hang in there and just know that we all support you, endlessly!

About your Oatmeal: Though I don’t care much for Oatmeal (I think it’s the weight/consistency, as I tried yours for flavor and it was great — Especially and pleasantly surprising, as I, myself, don’t care much for bananas or peanut butter), I wonder if the texture/consistency would be more to your liking if you added in some beaten egg whites in the mornings. I A.D.O.R.E. souffles, personally, (I make them — Real — All the time! You can get so creative and once you get the hang of them they’re SO easy!) and for quick mornings or lunches or even dinners, sometimes I’ll take 3-4 egg whites with just about a tablespoon (or less even) of water, add in some chopped spinach, some herbs de provence, some diced tomatoes, throw it in the micro and voila! A souffle is born 🙂 The water allows the egg to steam and not stick to the mug (oh… I use a higher-rimmed mug, not a ramekin, because it rises too high) and it’s wonderful and looks so fancy (microwaved for 3, 1 minute intervals, or until your egg is no longer runny and is puffed up! — Depends on your microwave’s power).

Anyways, I wonder if you added some whipped or even just beaten (until a little frothy) egg whites into your oatmeal before you threw it into the microwave to reheat, do you think it would make it more volumous? I thought about that as I was writing my last comment and it’s worth the shot, right?! And with some extra protein, why not!

julz – that sounds super neat! i will have to try out your souffles sometime soon, since there always seems to be an excess of egg whites in my fridge (from all my ice cream making 😛 ) and sometimes i get tired of omelettes.

I’m a busy college student too and I always made my oatmeal the night before. The texture does change and I’m not sure that there is any way around that. But I found if I added more water than I normally do and made a more liquidy oatmeal, it was a better consistency when reheated. Like Kath, I also added milk or water when I reheated it.

You could also try making some museli which gets even better when you let it sit overnight!

So I am writing a paper for a food culture course and am having a really hard time trying to figure out what to write about (so many ideas!!!). I am interested in the whole food blog culture-why they exist (for readers or bloggers, both?), when they started getting popular, why do we read them?!

Do any of you have input, comments, rants?(seeing as many of you have blogs)

Any other things you would be inspired to write about besides food blogs? I am also thinking of comparing how women in younger generations eat differently than their mothers or grandmothers and why this may be??

At least you can work out, perhaps longer Friday, Sat and Sun…this is what you want to do and it’s not going to last forever (that’s the way I look at nursing when I have class and clinicals five days a week and am sometimes at school all day!)

You take such good pics. I have to work at that. I’m doing a nursing student blog and need to lose weight and stay SANE so I’m including food and exercise along with discussions about the program.

Kath, one other thing. I’ll be curious to see about your eating situation. As nursing students we barely had time to eat and it’s ironic because we’re in a health profession yet it’s difficult to be healthy. I’d bring carrots or nuts to snack on but it was hard to pack a lunch and lug it around at school.

Kelly L,
It is pretty important to take a day of with weights. Your body needs to repair the work you did the day before. If you dont take a day off you risk overtraining and can actually lose strength.

As for cardio I only take a rest day if I have sore muscles and even then I will at least go for walk or swim if my legs are achy. Im training for a triathlon so there is not a lot of time for rest days.

Kelly- I usually take a day off whenever I feel like I need it or when I want to relax with my parents when I am visiting. for me exercise is important but I would never exercise in place of enjoying time with my family or if I felt extra tried or run down. Just listen to your body! It will tell you what it needs.

KellyL and SarahH- If you’re training hard everyday and for longer than an hour-rest days are imperative! I trained for and completed an Ironman (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 run) last year and my coach was adamant that we take our rest days. I trained 20 hours + a week but always, always, always took 1 day a week to recover. If you don’t you won’t progress as quickly as if you do. The rest allows your muscles to repair all the little rips that happen when you’re working out and allows you to re-hydrate your muscles. You risk really hurting yourself if you don’t take rest days and having to recover from an injury means not working out for a week (or much more) whereas if you take one day off a week, you’ll greatly reduce the risk of injury.

I used to not rest much if ever and I also didn’t cross-train- another thing they recommend you do. I just ran, 7 days a week and ended up getting plantar fascia (sp?)- itis. It sucks, and ended up meaning I had a 5 month “rest”. Now I always rest, and if I’m not sure whether I’m pushing too hard, I rest. (and I bike, walk, swim and eliptical).

I just want to throw that out there because I used to think resting was for wusses and now I am a BIG believer in it!

I do believe in rest days. I just meant I like to at least take a walk because it makes me feel better and gets me ready for the day. But if you have a hardwork out the day before you def need a rest the muscles you used.